Roxolana in European Literature, History and CultureGalina I. Yermolenko This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study of early modern transnationalism, cross-cultural exchange, and notions of identity, the Self, and the Other. |
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... Venetian reports discussed below : e.g. , “ la circassa " ( Navagero ) ; “ una donna circassa ” ( Trevisano ) . See Eugenio Alberi , ed . Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato , ser . 3 : Relazioni degli stati ottomani , 3 vols ...
... Venetian reports discussed below : e.g. , “ la circassa " ( Navagero ) ; “ una donna circassa ” ( Trevisano ) . See Eugenio Alberi , ed . Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato , ser . 3 : Relazioni degli stati ottomani , 3 vols ...
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... Venetian ambassadors ( baili ) , particularly by Pietro Bragadino ( 1526 ) , Bernardo Navagero ( 1553 ) , Domenico Trevisano ( 1554 ) , and the author of " Relazione anonima della guerra di Persia dell'anno 1553 " ; the narrative , I ...
... Venetian ambassadors ( baili ) , particularly by Pietro Bragadino ( 1526 ) , Bernardo Navagero ( 1553 ) , Domenico Trevisano ( 1554 ) , and the author of " Relazione anonima della guerra di Persia dell'anno 1553 " ; the narrative , I ...
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... Venetian reports , Roxolana was not particularly beautiful , but rather graceful , elegant , and modest . " Yet , her irresistible charm and playfulness , or perhaps her fair skin and hair , may have stood out among other concubines ...
... Venetian reports , Roxolana was not particularly beautiful , but rather graceful , elegant , and modest . " Yet , her irresistible charm and playfulness , or perhaps her fair skin and hair , may have stood out among other concubines ...
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... Venetian bailo Marcantonio Donini in Alberi , Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato , 3 : 178–9 ; and The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , 55 . 73 Hurrem's daughter Mihrimah had a rather successful life however as ...
... Venetian bailo Marcantonio Donini in Alberi , Relazioni degli ambasciatori veneti al Senato , 3 : 178–9 ; and The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq , 55 . 73 Hurrem's daughter Mihrimah had a rather successful life however as ...
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... Venetian Senate scene , at the end of Act I , where the doges admire Titian's portrait of Rosa . A copy of this portrait is featured on the cover of the present volume and is described in the Illustration list and at the beginning of ...
... Venetian Senate scene , at the end of Act I , where the doges admire Titian's portrait of Rosa . A copy of this portrait is featured on the cover of the present volume and is described in the Illustration list and at the beginning of ...
Contents
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Part 2 Translations | 165 |
Appendix 1 Plot Summaries | 255 |
Appendix 2 Names | 271 |
Appendix 3 Chronology | 275 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 301 |
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